Meet Ahara
Ahara is a Sanskrit word defined as nourishment. It refers to eating, as well as taking in energy, and knowledge.
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Our Story
Ahara was founded by Dr. Melina Jampolis, physician nutritionist specialist, and Julie Wainwright, a serial tech entrepreneur and most recently founder and CEO of The RealReal.
Ahara was conceived by Dr. Melina and Julie, long time friends as well as doctor and patient. As a patient, Julie realized that Dr. Melina’s proven, food-first nutritional philosophy for better health could be accessible to everyone through technology. By leveraging the power of multi-omic inputs from the health questionnaire, genetic, epigenetic and biomarker testing, Ahara fuses technology, nutritional science and data science to deliver a proprietary personalized nutrition solution like no other.
You get the experience of working with an international team of world-class nutrition experts at a fraction of the cost. If you are focused on improving your nutritional health and overall well being, Ahara is the solution.
Co-Founders
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Julie Wainwright
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Dr. Melina Jampolis, MD
Team
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Matt Oefinger
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Emily Poplawski
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Real Deprez
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Allison Sommer
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Slaton Carter
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Nancy Alonzo
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Martin Kohlmeier, MD, PHD
Professor and Director, Nutrigenetics Laboratory, University of North Carolina, UNC Nutrition Research Institute.
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José Ordovás, PHD
Professor of Nutrition, Professor of Genetics, Director Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Tufts University
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Shumone Ray, MD
UK Licensed MD & Public Health Nutritionist Chair, chief scientist & ED of NNEdPro Global Institute for Food, Nutrition & Health.
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Kathie M. Swift, MS RDN LDN FAND EBQ
Co-founder, Integrative & Functional Nutrition Academy ・ Author The Swift Dev & The Inside TractMD
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Taylor Wallace, PHD, CFS, FACN
CEO, Think Healthy Group; Adjunct Professor, George Mason University; Editor, Journal of Dietary Supplements &, Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
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Ramy Saad, MRCP
Doctor & Researcher at UCL | Genetics NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow
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Michael Dansinger, MD
Founder, Diabetes Reversal Program at Tufts Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Tufts School of Medicine. CDC & WebMD Nutrition Expert.
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